Jack E Davis
Author
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Company
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"The bald eagle is regal but fearless, a bird you're not inclined to argue with. For centuries, Americans have celebrated it as "majestic" and "noble," yet savaged the living bird behind their national symbol as a malicious predator of livestock and, falsely, a snatcher of babies. Taking us from before the nation's founding through inconceivable resurgences of this enduring all-American species, Jack E. Davis contrasts the age when native peoples...
Author
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation, A Division of W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Significant beyond tragic oil spills and hurricanes, the Gulf has historically been one of the world's most bounteous marine environments, supporting human life for millennia. Based on the premise that nature lies at the center of human existence, Davis takes readers on a compelling and, at times, wrenching journey from the Florida Keys to the Texas Rio Grande, along marshy shorelines and majestic estuarine bays, both beautiful and life-giving, though...
Author
Publisher
University of Georgia Press
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
No one did more than Marjory Stoneman Douglas to transform the Everglades from the country's most maligned swamp into its most beloved wetland. By the late twentieth century, her name and her classic The Everglades: River of Grass had become synonymous with Everglades protection. The crusading resolve and boundless energy of this implacable elder won the hearts of an admiring public while confounding her opponents—growth merchants
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Series
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap
Pub. Date
1997.
Language
English
Description
When Zack accidentally drinks the invisible ink that is one of Spencer's experiments, he worries about missing his only chance to get his picture in the paper, if the new flavor he and Spencer invented wins the local Len and Larry's Ice Cream contest.
10) Bozo the clone
Author
Series
Zack files volume 10
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap
Pub. Date
[1997]
Language
English
Description
When Zack uses a magic box from Tibet to produce a duplicate of himself, he finds that he has created more problems than he has solved.
Author
Series
Zack files volume 4
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap
Pub. Date
[1996]
Language
English
Description
After an electrifying experiment in science class gives Zack a shock, he realizes that he can read other people's minds.
Author
Series
Zack files volume 5
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap
Pub. Date
[1997]
Language
English
Description
While Zack is being treated by Dr. Jekyll, his new orthodontist, the doctor undergoes a strange transformation into a growling monster.
Author
Series
Zack files volume 3
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap
Pub. Date
[1996]
Language
English
Description
Zack feels that a supernatural force is at work in his apartment when he encounters floating television sets, pancakes that flip by themselves, and a ghost named Wanda.
Author
Series
Zack files volume 6
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap
Pub. Date
[1997]
Language
English
Description
When his friend Spencer, the class genius, spends the night, he and Zack discover how to leave their bodies and travel around New York City, but they have one problem--how to get back inside themselves.
Author
Series
Zack files volume 7
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap
Pub. Date
[1997]
Language
English
Description
Zack starts turning into a cat when the spirit of an ancient Egyptian cat goddess is accidentally transferred into his body during a class field trip.
18) I am the dog
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Jacob trades places for the day with his dog Max and discovers the joys of chasing balls, eating kibble, and getting scratched behind the ears.
19) Monster Goose
Author
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
A collection of twenty-five nursery rhymes, rewritten to feature vampires, ghouls, mummies, the Loch Ness monster, and other fearsome creatures.